Various searchable records from the Johnston County Heritage Center. Includes census records for the county from the 1860-1920 census; newspaper obituaries from 1801-present; Johnston County slave name index; headlines from the Smithfield Herald...

From the website: "Digitized records from the nineteenth century comprise the heart of 'Other Souths.' County data from the 1860 and 1870 Population Censuses, the 1860 Slaveholder Census, Confederate Service Records, and more is fully searchable." ...